河南省郑州四中09-10学年高一竞赛试题（英语）
命题人：岳桂英 校对：蒙曌琦
试卷说明：
1.本试卷分第一卷和第二卷两部分，第一卷从第1页到第3页， 第二卷从第4页到第5页，共5页；满分120分；考试时间100分钟。
2．第一卷答案请用铅笔涂写在答题卡上， 第二卷答题要求请看答题卷第1-2卷。 3．交卷时只交答题卡和答题卷。
第一卷
第一部分 英语知识运用 (共两节，满分30分)
第一节 ：单项填空（共15题；每小题1分，满分15分） 1. I really don't know______ I had my money stolen .
A . when was it that B . that it was when C . where it was that D . it was where that 2. Father went to his doctor for ______ about his heart trouble . A . an advice B . advice C . advices D . the advices
3. You really don't know what we ______ while we were working on this project . A . went through B . go through C . go across D . go down 4. The doctor ______ a cure for the disease .
A .came over to B. came out from C . came on D . came up with 5. Can you tell me the name of the school ______ you visited last week? A. what B. where C. who D. which
6. I couldn’t move my legs. It was ______ they were stuck to the floor. A. as if B. so that C. as long as D. even if
7. Is this factory ______ the foreign investors are going to visit next month?
A. the one B. that C. where D. What
8. Whenever we’re in ________, we should never lose ______ but try to think of the way out.
A. the trouble; our hearts B. troubles; hearts
C. trouble; heart D. the trouble; the heart 9. —How are you getting along with your studies? —Not very well, ______．
A．of course B．I’m sure C．I’m afraid D．on the other hand 10. He is the man _________ you can turn when you are in trouble. A. that B. which C. to whom D. to him
11. At last, they came to a beautiful island, _____ they enjoyed a good picnic. A. which B. where C. there D. on it
12. They consider that vase to be a treasure, but in my opinion, it is just a ______ bottle.
A. valuable B. rare C. common D. worth 13. — What did you think of the film last night? — Really wonderful! It’s well worth _____.
A. seeing B. to see C. being seen D. to be seen
14. Because the two countries were at _____ war, the people had ______ hard
life.
A. /; the B. the; the C. /; a D. a; a 15. It is said that a new shopping street ______ here next year.
A. will build B. will be built C. would build D. would be built 第二节 ： 完形填空（共15题，每小题1分，满分15分）ww
阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A long time ago, in a small house in Scotland, two friends lived together. Their names were John and Bobby.
John and Bobby were not 16 , and they had few things except friends, 17 they were happy. They lit a warm fire when it was cold outside. They had food to eat when they were hungry. They were never 18 because they had each other. John and Bobby 19 to take long walks together. After their 20 John usually cooked the dinner. John and Bobby ate the dinner and then 21 in front of the fire. They had a(n) 22 but happy life.
Then John developed a(n) 23 disease and died in the spring of 1858. He was 24 in a grave (坟墓). After that, Bobby stood at John’s grave and shouted. “Come on, Bobby,” John’s 25 said. “It’s time to go home.” Bobby went home, but later he returned to the grave. He 26 near it. He stayed there all night.
Bobby stayed at the grave site the next day, and the day after another. For the next 14 years, Bobby never left the 27 . When the weather was cold, he slept in a small house near the grave. When it was 28 , he slept on the ground near John’s grave.
29 , in 1872, Bobby died, too. John’s friends buried him in a 30 grave near John’s. Why was Bobby’s grave so little? Bobby, John’s best friend, was a dog.
16. A. rich B. lucky C. beautiful D. funny 17. A. and B. or C. but D. so
18. A. lonely B. alone C. worried D. separate 19. A. failed B. competed C. imagined D. liked 20. A. work B. rest C. run D. walk 21. A. sang B. talked C. sat D. studied 22. A. hard B. sad C. easy D. simple 23. A. serious B. unhealthy C. big D. sick 24. A. put B. escaped C. stored D. buried 25. A. friends B. children C. parents D. brothers
26. A. got up B. turned down C. sat down D. put up 27. A. garage B. grave C. home D. town 28. A. cool B. warm C. wet D. rainy
29. A. Luckily B. Quickly C. Finally D. Interestingly 30. A. large B. small C. firm D. weak 第二部分 阅读(共两节，满分40分) ww
第一节 ： 阅读理解（共15小题，每题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C或D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。w
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Many people go to school for a good education . They learn languages ,history ,maths and other lessons . School education is very important and useful . Yet no one can learn everything from school . No matter how much a teacher knows , he cannot teach his students everything they want to know . His work is to show his students how to learn . He teaches them how to read and how to think . So , much more is to be learned outside school by the students themselves .
It is always more important to know how to study by oneself . It is quite easy to learn something in a language or a formula in maths , but it is difficult to use a formula in finding the answer to a maths problem . Great inventors do not get everything from school but they can invent many things and change the world a lot . Though Thomas Edison invented many things he didn’t have much school education . How do they do all these ? Because they know how to study . A lot of things are not taught in the classroom . They get knowledge from books outside school . They work hard all their lives , and the most important thing is that they know how to use their head .
31. What do many people go to school for ?
A. To make friends B. To get everything
C. To get a good education D. To study by themselves 32. What should a student learn to do from school ? A. Try to remember more knowledge and formulas . B. Try to learn how to read and how to think . C. Try to remember what the teachers teach . D. Try to invent the world .
33. How can an inventor invent things ? The most important thing is how to .
A. be a great inventor B. study by himself
C. use his head well D. remember what he’s been taught 34. The word formula in this passage means .
A. 数学题 B. 公式 C. 几何图形 D. 数学用表
35. Which of the following shows the most important idea of this passage ? A. School education is important for a person . B. A student can not learn everything from school . C. A student should learn how to remember a formula .
D. Inventors can invent things and change the world a lot . B
Computer programmer David Jones makes 35,000 pounds a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a credit card (信用卡). Instead, he has been told to wait another two years, until he is 18. The 16-year-old boy works for a small firm in Liverpool, where the problem of most young people of his age is finding a job. David’s firm puts two new games on the home market each month.
But David’s biggest headache is what to do with his money. In spite of his salary, made by inventing new programs within a quite short period of time, the bonus payments and profit-sharing (奖金和分红), he cannot drive a car, get some money from a bank to buy a house, or get credit cards.
He lives with his parents in their house in Liverpool, where his father is a bus driver. His firm has to pay ￡150 a month in taxi fares to get him the five miles to work and back every day because David cannot drive.
David got his job with the firm a year after leaving school with six 0-levels and working for a time in a computer shop. “I got the job because the people who
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